One of my greatest aims is to make Whitechapel a nexus for Desirable Information.

Memes, virals, that which makes you laugh, that which makes your bowels weep; anything found or scavenged online which has no informative value: that stuff will continue to go in “Around The Net.” I’ll be updating that once every four weeks too.

This…? This is for everything else.

News Stories. Mad Science. Horrific Nature. Metaphysical madness.

Here is where we gorge ourselves on the creamy clostrum of Information. Here is where we nuzzle at the red-raw teat of the Up-To-Date Dataweb. Bring me the light of your Weird Wisdom and your New News.

(Anything of particular interest, go ahead and create new threads in this category to delve deeper.)

@ Vornaskotti: Saw that article last night and thought it was one of the most refreshing and positive pieces I've read in a long time, with none of the Gollum-like precious-ness the likes of Meshittica and Feargal Sharkey always seem to evoke whenever I see or hear them.

(and before I'm roundly condemned, abused and eel-ed, "Meshittica" is what my friend's kids call them and it's just stuck. Yeah, a 43 yr old passes the buck to a bunch of teens. Go Foamhead!)

Well, yeah, however the FBI sheet strikes me as a list of indicators, similar to a profile of serial killers. Just because I happen to be a white male between the ages of 25 and 45 doesn't mean that I'm a serial killer. However, if other indicators pop up, somebody might want to check my house for bodies. In the same way, just because someone "likes privacy" that doesn't mean that they're a terrorist. However, if they're popping all or most of the behaviors on that sheet, it might be time to bring the bomb-detecting dogs around to give their garbage a few quiet sniff.

I will say that I like that the FBI sheet strongly emphasizes behavior over ethnicity.